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NC LIVE logoABC-CLIO eBook Collection
The ABC-CLIO eBook Collection (formerly known as the Greenwood Digital Collection) is a collection of complete reference, academic, and general interest ebooks, all searchable by keyword, subject, author, title, or any Boolean search method. Subject strengths include:  Business, Education, Literature, Multi-Cultural Studies, and Popular Culture. The collection includes the series Daily Life Through History, Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Authors, Historic Events of the 20th Century, Literature in Context, as well as American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography.
 
Academic OneFile via Gale
Home to nearly 13,000 indexed journals -- and including millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions -- Academic OneFile features extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes the following collections: Business Economics & Theory, Communication and Mass Media, Criminal Justice, Fine Arts & Music, Nursing & Allied Health, and Psychology.
 
NC LIVE logoAcademic Search Premier via EBSCOhost
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for some 4513 publications, including 3,630 peer-reviewed journals. It also features indexing and abstracts for 8025 journals, 6850 of which are peer-reviewed. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
 
ACLS Humanities E-Book
ACLS Humanities E-Book is a collaboration of ten learned societies, nearly 80 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars and featuring unlimited multi-user access and free, downloadable MARC records. The Humanities E-Book is available 24/7 on- and off-campus through standard web browsers.
 
NC LIVE logo African-American Poetry via Chadwyck-Healey
Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
 
American Chemical Society Journals
Search and full-text access for over 40 American Chemical Society publications online.
 
American History in Video via Alexander Street Press
American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and the presentation of historical events over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.
 
NC LIVE logo American Poetry via Chadwyck-Healey
Over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century.
 
American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Historical Monographs Collection- Series 1
The American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Historical Monographs Collection -- Series 1 presents more than 15,000 titles from 13th Century through the 1893 World Parliament of Religions. The historical time period of the collection reflects upon a time of great doctrinal, social, and organizational change. Since religion was such an integral part of the social, political and economic fabric of life during the time period of this collection, historians researching a wide range of areas will find invaluable material relevant to their work. The collection covers a wide range of material with unparalleled depth and breadth. It includes many volumes documenting the recovery of languages used during the biblical era and provides an in-depth view of the way that interest in, and knowledge of, biblical languages emerged during the nineteenth century, an important foundation for today’s study and understanding of biblical languages. It also contains titles in Aramaic, Arabic, Greek, Hebrew and Syriac.
 
American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Historical Monographs Collection- Series 2
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The American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Historical Monographs Collection -- Series 2 consists of nearly 15,000 titles published from 1894 through 1923. It presents a comprehensive picture of religion in America at the turn of the century. Subjects addressed include the conflict between religion and science, the growing interest in Eastern religions and other world religions, and significant shifts in the religious identification of Americans.
 
NC LIVE logo ArticleFirst via OCLC FirstSearch
OCLC index of articles from the contents pages of journals
 
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals. The ATLA Religion Database includes more than 460,000 article citations from more than 1,500 journals (651 currently indexed), more than 260,000 essay citations from over 15,400 multi-author works, more than 423,000 book review citations, and a growing number of multimedia citations. This database begins in 1949 although indexing for some journal titles extends back into the nineteenth century. Links are provided to over 140,000 electronic articles and book reviews, from more than seventy journals selected by leading religion scholars in the United States. This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association.
 
ATLAS for Alum provided through a grant by the American Theological Library Association
Divinity School Alumni can now access ATLASerials® (ATLAS®), an online collection of more than one hundred thirty major religion and theology journals selected by leading religion scholars and theologians. Through the ATLAS database, alumni can research the history of a topic from as early as 1924 to the present through more than 238,000 articles and book reviews combined. Currently, researches are able to use ATLAS as a search tool to retrieve PDFs of the pages in more than one hundred and forty different journals, with fully searchable text that allows for keyword proximity and citation set searches.
ATLAS for ALUM is accessible by Divinity School alumni only. If you would like access contact Mary Roby for more information.
 
NC LIVE logoAuto Repair Reference Center via EBSCOhost
Auto Repair Reference Center includes more than 33,100 vehicles covered from 1945 to present; over 250,000 drawings and step-by-step photographs; approximately 77,570 technical service bulletins & recalls issued by the original equipment vehicle manufacturer; over 144,600 enhanced wiring diagrams for easy viewing and printing; specifications & maintenance schedules; Labor Time Guide & Estimator; AutoIQ; Quick Tips, a complete guide to vehicle ownership & maintenance; unlimited remote access and much more. New repair procedures and updates will also be added continuously. All of the content in Auto Repair Reference Center has been created by ASE certified technicians.

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Biography Reference Bank via WilsonWeb
Contains the full text of the articles from more than 100 volumes of biographical reference books published by H. W. Wilson, including all the articles from all volumes of Current Biography, the World Author Series, Nobel Prize Winners, World Artists, World Film Directors, American Reformers, and numerous biographical books on musicians and composers throughout history. Also included are thousands of biographies from other respected publishers. In addition to the full text biographies, Biography Reference Bank contains millions of magazine citations (many of which contain full-text) from all of the Wilson Indexing Databases, including all citations from Biography Index Database after 1984, as well as thousands of links to book review citations, including review excerpts and full text reviews from Book Review Digest Plus. The biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, titles of works, date of birth, date of death, keyword, and presence of images.
 
Biological & Agricultural Index Plus via WilsonWeb
Biological & Agricultural Index Plus offers researchers convenient online access to the core literature of biology and agriculture—much of it from peer-reviewed journals—plus full text. Full text citations also link to PDF page images, featuring graphs, charts, diagrams, photos, and illustrations indispensable to science research.
 
BioOne
BioOne provides access to a unique collection of high-impact bioscience research journals, featuring timely content covering a wide array of todays' most pressing topics, including global warming, stem cell research, and ecological and biodiversity conservation.
 
Books in Print via Bowker
Professional bibliographic database with five million in-print, out-of-print, forthcoming, audio book, and video titles. Many full-text reviews included.
 
Britannica Online via Britannica
Over 120,000 articles, an updated world atlas, thousands of images and videos, an online dictionary and thesaurus, over 300,000 articles from respected magazines and journals, news headlines, a guide to the Web's best sites, and much more.
 
NC LIVE logo Business Source Premier via EBSCOhost
This is the industry's most used business research database, providing the full text for nearly 8,800 serials. Business Source Premier provides full text back to 1965 (or the first issue published for that journal) and searchable cited references back as far as 1998. Full-text coverage is provided in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
 
NC LIVE logo Business Source Premier -- Enhanced Business Searching Interface via EBSCOhost
The Enhanced Business Searching Interface offers researchers a more powerful, streamlined interface with faster searching capability than the standard Business Source Premier interface. It also features a number of enhancements designed specifcally for the business researcher, including a number of new sources of information regarding companies, industries, markets, etc., and easier access to search options.

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NC LIVE logoCAMIO -- Catalog of Art Museum Images Online via OCLC
Provides rights-cleared, high-quality art images for class projects, art history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures, presentations, and research resources.
 
NC LIVE logoCareer Library via EBSCOhost
Career Library offers a comprehensive information resource for career and college research. Five user-friendly components help users match their interests to occupations, education prospects, and more.
 
Choice Reviews Online
Choice Reviews Online provides Web access to the entire database of CHOICE reviews published since September 1988. The database is updated monthly, generally at mid-month, with reviews that will be printed in the next monthly issue of CHOICE. Each year Choice publishes more than 6,500 concise, critical, expert reviews of new scholarly books and electronic sources in fields across the entire college curriculum.
 
NC LIVE logo CINAHL with Full Text via EBSCOhost
CINAHL with Full Text provides indexing for 2,719 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982. CINAHL with Full Text also contains searchable cited references for 1,150 journals and provides full text for 331 journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to 1982 are also included.
 
Civil War: Antebellum Period to Reconstruction
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The newspapers in The Civil War include the Baltimore Sun, Charleston Mercury, Dallas Weekly Herald, Milwaukee Sentinel, National Intelligencer, New Orleans Times Picayune, New York Herald, New York Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Bulletin and more than 170 others. Featuring many titles of unique historical significance, this extensive selection of newspapers provides not only detailed news stories and illustrations, varied editorial views and illuminating advertisements, but also eyewitness military reporting by the nation’s best journalists. Essential resources published by the U.S. government include “The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies,” “Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America” and many others. Rich with illustrations, the broadsides and ephemera include song sheets, poems, envelopes and other hard-to-find printed materials that shed new light on the Civil War era. These infrequently used documents—often no more than a single page—illuminate the daily struggles of not only the soldiers, but also the families they left behind.
 
NC LIVE logo ClasePeriodica via OCLC FirstSearch
Indexes over 2,600 Latin American scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities, science, and technology. The journals are published in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English. Covers articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews, and brief notes. Updated quarterly with coverage back to 1/1/1975.
 
NC LIVE logo Consumer Health Complete via EBSCOhost
Designed to support the information needs of patients, and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics, CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children’s health, men & women’s health, etc.
 
NC LIVE logo CQ Researcher Online via CQ Press
The CQ Researcher provides original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues shaping our world. Each 12,000-word report is a unique work, investigated and written by a seasoned journalist. Published 44 times a year, CQ Researcher reports offer in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the U.S. economy.
 
NC LIVE logo CQ Weekly via CQ Press
Complete source for expert coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and back room maneuvering. Produced by the largest news team on Capitol Hill.

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NC LIVE logo English Poetry via Chadwyck-Healey
Essentially the complete English poetic canon from 600 to 1900. Over 165,000 poems by more than 1,250 poets drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources.
 
NC LIVE logo ERIC (Education) via EBSCOhost
ERIC®, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC contains more than 1,282,000 records and links to more than 314,000 full text documents from ERIC.

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NC LIVE logo Faber Poetry Library via Chadwyck-Healey
A collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. The Faber list includes Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, T. S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath covering the seventy year history of this major publishing house.
 
NC LIVE logo Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia via EBSCOhost
Updated annually, this database includes over 25,000 full text records, covering an array of subject areas.

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NC LIVE logo Gale Virtual Reference Library via Gale
Gale Virtual Reference Library provides respected authoritative essays on varied topics from numerous subject areas, all in E-Book reference title format.
 
NC LIVE logo GPO via OCLC FirstSearch
Provides citations to all types of U.S. government documents on any subject of interest to the government. Covers Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.). Coverage: Updated Monthly with coverage back to 1/1/1976.
 
GreenFILE via EBSCOhost
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records.  
 
NC LIVE logoGreenwood Digital Collection via NC LIVE
See ABC-CLIO eBook Collection

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HaPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments) via EBSCOhost
Health and Psychosocial Instruments provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. HaPI assists researchers, practitioners, educators, administrators, and evaluators, including students, to identify measures needed for research studies, grant proposals, client/patient assessment, class papers/projects, theses/dissertations, and program evaluation. By creating an organized resource of previously unavailable measurement information, HaPI: (a) provides a means of locating a variety of instruments, (b) helps to reduce inefficiency and cost, and (c) eliminates duplication and "reinvention of the wheel."
 
NC LIVE logo Health Source: Consumer Edition via EBSCOhost
Provides consumer oriented information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health. Features access to nearly 300 full text consumer health periodicals; includes searchable full text for more than 1000 health-related pamphlets and 135 health reference books. Also contains more than 4500 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish) and Stedman's Medical Dictionary.
 
NC LIVE logo Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition via EBSCOhost
Provides more than 550 full text journals (446 of them peer-reviewed) focusing on many medical disciplines, and provides abstracts and indexing for over 826 journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong.
 
NC LIVE logoHeritageQuest via ProQuest
Provides libraries with a unique, growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture. Contains original page images for all documents, over 25,000 books, the entire U.S. Federal Census, PERSI™, and other expanding collections.

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iPreach: Bible Reference Tool [iPreach FAQ]
Offers an extensive collection of Bible reference tools for pastors, teachers, and students; it includes an extensive collection of commentaries, Bible dictionaries, Biblical translations, devotionals, sermons, and other religious reference materials. 

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JSTOR: Language & Literature Collection
The 77 titles in the Language & Literature Collection span the literary cultures of many different countries, and contain articles in several languages, including Arabic, Italian, and German. Developed with the help of the Modern Language Association, this collection includes PMLA and a range of core journals in the diverse fields of literary criticism that have emerged in the last thirty years.

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NC LIVE logoLearning Express Library via Learning Express
Provides an interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.
 
LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis Academic provides access to full-text news, business, and legal publications, using a variety of flexible search options. One of the most heavily used databases in higher education, LexisNexis® Academic is available at over 1,500 libraries serving over 8 million students and faculty. It is a standard element in many research and information literacy programs. Access over 6,000 news, business, and legal sources. The outstanding news coverage includes deep backfiles and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources. Use the included Company Dossier module to retrieve detailed company information and financial performance measures or identify and compare companies matching specific criteria. This product also provides access to the renowned Shepard's Citations® service for all federal and states court cases back to 1789.
 
Library of Sport, Coaching and Physical Education
Provides hundreds of articles on dozens of sports, coaching and physical education topics-ready for instant viewing, and rapid downloading, printing, or emailing. It's the ultimate resource for busy practitioners needing PRACTICAL information, ideas, tips and coaching cues on all aspect of sport.
 
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts via EBSCO
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
 
LibriVox
At LibriVox, volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain into digital audio (eg. mp3), and then make the audio files available to the world, for free.
 
NC LIVE logoLiterary Reference Center via EBSCO
Literary Reference Center™ is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It has been specifically designed for public libraries, secondary schools, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research. Literary Reference Center is a full text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. Literary Reference Center contains full text for 31,098 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism, nearly 140,000 author biographies (including 20,000 in-depth bios), more than 430 literary journals, more than 605,000 book reviews, more than 60,000 classic and contemporary poems, more than 15,000 classic and contemporary short stories, more than 5,200 author interviews, more than 7,100 classic texts and much more. In addition, Literary Reference Center also includes Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Beacham's Research Guide to Biography and Criticism (six volumes), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, The Literary Encyclopedia, The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, all of MagillOnLiterature Plus™, and much more.
 
Literature Resource Center via Gale
The Literature Resource Center is a complete literature reference database designed for both the undergraduate and graduate student as well as the sophisticated casual user. Rich in biographical, bibliographical, and critical content, the Literature Resource Center is the premier Internet resource for information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more.

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NC LIVE logoMAS Ultra - School Edition via EBSCOhost
A comprehensive general reference database designed for high school libraries, featuring full text for more than 700 popular high school magazines. Full text is also available for 84,074 biographies and 86,135 primary source documents. Additionally, MAS Ultra™ contains 518 pamphlets, more than 230 reference books and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps & flags. Also includes the Our States reference book series, a new collection made up of 54 titles on each of the states, commonwealths and territories in the United States.
 
NC LIVE logo MasterFile Premier via EBSCOhost
Full text for 2,005 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. Also contains full text for 809 reference resources, 84,074 biographies, 86,135 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps & flags.
 
NC LIVE logoMiddle Search Plus via EBSCOhost
Designed to assist middle and junior high school students in learning how to research current events and information on a wide range of general topics. Features full text for 140 popular, middle school magazines and thousands of biographies, historical essays and student pamphlets. Contains primary source documents including Essential Documents in American History. Also contains reference books including the Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia, American Heritage® Dictionary, the Encyclopedia of Animals™, an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags, and the Our States reference book series, a new collection made up of 54 titles on each of the states, commonwealths and territories in the United States.
 
NC LIVE logoMilitary & Government Collection via EBSCOhost
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and govenmnet, this database offers a thorough collection of military titles, trade publications, and news weeklies. Military & Government Collection includes abstracts and indexing for nearly 500 titles providing cover to cover full text for nearly 400. The database also includes full text for 245 pamphlets.
 
MLA International Bibliography via EBSCOhost
MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA). Tthe electronic version of the bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.7 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series, and 1,000 book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international and includes almost 60 titles from J-STOR's language and literature collection as well as links to full text. Subjects consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, and dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included.
 
NC LIVE logoMorningstar Library Edition via Morningstar
Combines in one timely database all the fund and stock information necessary for in-depth research. In one database, you have comprehensive information on both mutual funds and stocks. And each fund and stock report is loaded with critical data and decisive analysis. Includes:
· 16,000+ mutual funds
· 100+ ETFs
· 6,000+ stocks from NYSE, AMEX, Nasdaq, and OTC exchanges
· 250 screenable fund datapoints
· 450 screenable stock datapoints
· 2,000 Fund Analyst Reports
· 1,400+ Stock Analyst Reports
 
Music Index Online via EBSCOhost
The Music Index Online edition features over 1.4 million records. The searchable database is updated quarterly with about 100,000 new records added annually. Topics concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music are thoroughly categorized and organized according to the framework of an internal Subject List which includes both Subject and Geographic headings. Covering all styles and genres of music, The Music Index duly cites book reviews, obituaries, new periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry.
 
NC LIVE logo MyiLibrary via Ingram
This collection of 379 ebooks, made available through NC LIVE with a LSTA grant from the State Library of North Carolina, focuses primarily on language learning, project management, history, biography, health, and medicine. Patrons can read the books online without downloading any material and no proprietary eBook reader is needed to view the books.
 

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NC LIVE logoNC LIVE Media Collection
The NC LIVE Video Collection is a collection of more than 250 high quality documentary and educational video programs produced for the Public Broadcasting Corporation. Chosen by North Carolina librarians for use in supporting education and for general interest, the collection includes programming covering the sciences, US and world history, biography, current events, and the arts, as well as a variety of other subjects. In addition, several educational series for children are included.
 
NC LIVE logonetLibrary
Provides easy access to the full text of more than 22,000 reference, scholarly, and professional books.
 
Newsbank Newspapers
Provides full text of current and archived electronic editions of nearly 700+ local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers-all in one easy to search interface.
 
NC LIVE logo Newspaper Source Plus via EBSCOhost
Newspaper Source™ Plus provides cover-to-cover full text for 149 national & international newspapers, including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Times (London), The Age, The Australian, The Toronto Star, The Irish Times and others. The database also contains selective full text for more than 410 U.S newspapers, including The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, San Jose Mercury News, etc. In addition, full-text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, National Public Radio (NPR), etc.
 
NC LIVE logoNorth American Women's Letters and Diaries via Alexander Street Press
Over 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries plus 4,000 pages of previously unpublished materials depicting the personal experiences of hundreds of women.
 
NC LIVE logoNorth Carolina Community Newspapers via NC LIVE
Links to many local North Carolina newspapers.
 
NC LIVE logoNoveList via EBSCO NoveList
A readers' advisory service that is searchable by author, title, series name, and plot (including character, topic, time period, and setting) to retrieve descriptions, reviews, discussion guides, and feature articles related to books of interest. Readers may select from information provided to find similar books that appeal to them. Updated and expanded monthly, the service also includes author read-alikes, lists of award-winning fiction, and book lists arranged by genre and subgenre, feature articles, school content and more.

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NC LIVE logoOIAster via OCLC FirstSearch
Catalog of digital resources including books, articles, audiofile, images and more. OAIster currently provides access to 19,906,256 records from 1082 contributors and is updated quarterly.

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NC LIVE logoPrimary Search (Children's Magazines) via EBSCOhost
Designed specifically for elementary school libraries. Features full text for more than 60 popular elementary school magazines; all full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexile). Full text also available for over 100 student pamphlets. Includes the Encyclopedia of Animals™ and Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia. Also includes the American Heritage® Children’s Dictionary and an Image Collection.
 
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
Search all dissertations in Dissertation Abstracts Subset A (Humanities and Social Sciences) plus all dissertations with a degree date of 2006 or 2007. Titles published since 1997 are available in PDF digital format and have 24 page previews available.

 
NC LIVE logoProQuest Newspapers via ProQuest Company
Includes all of North Carolina Newsstand (see above) plus many full text articles from Christian Science Monitor (1988 to present), Los Angeles Times (1988 to present), New York Times (1999 to present), Wall Street Journal (1984 to present), and The Washington Post (1996 to present).
 
PsycARTICLES via EBSCOhost
PsycARTICLES is a definitive source of searchable full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research. The database contains more than 40,000 articles from 53 journals - 45 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 8 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1985 to present.
 
NC LIVE logoPsycINFO (Psychology) via EBSCOhost
This database from the APA (American Psychological Association) covers psychology and related disciplines (such as medicine, nursing, education, sociology, business, law and more). In some cases, information dates back as far as 1887. Indexes over 1300 journals. Also includes books, portions of books and dissertations. All abstracts, no full text.
 
PubMed
A service of the National Library of Medicine, PubMed provides access to over 11 million citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

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NC LIVE logoReferenceUSA via infoUSA
Searchable database with detailed information, including addresses and phone numbers, on more than 12 million U.S. businesses, 102 million U.S. residents, 683,000 U.S. health care providers, and 95,000 Technology Companies and 280,000 Executives Databases.
 

NC LIVE logoRegional Business News via EBSCOhost
Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). Features full text for more than 50 sources with 67 periodicals indexed and abstracted.

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Sage Premier 2009
Contains almost 500 full-text journals in the social sciences, humanities, and life sciences
 
NC LIVE logoSanborn Maps North Carolina via Sanborn Maps North Carolina
Sanborn Maps for the state of North Carolina provides digital access to 11,173 large-scale maps of 158 North Carolina towns and cities. Users have the ability to easily manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections, and compare maps from different years.
 
NC LIVE logoScience Reference Center via EBSCOhost
A comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife. Science Reference Center also provides teachers and librarians with articles correlated to state and national curriculum standards.
 
NC LIVE logoSearchasaurus via EBSCOhost
Colorful and fun graphical search interface intended for elementary and middle school students. EBSCO databases searchable through this interface are: American Heritage Children's Dictionary, Encyclopedia of Animals, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, Image Collections, Middle Search Plus, and Primary Search.
 
NC LIVE logoSerials Directory via EBSCOhost
Provides up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials. Contains nearly 184,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers; historical data for an additional 20,000 titles; data from nearly 83,500 publishers worldwide, including e-mail and Internet addresses. Includes Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal Classifications for every entry.
 
NC LIVE logoSimplyMap via Geographic Research
SimplyMap is a web-based mapping application that lets users quickly create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using powerful demographic, business, and marketing data.
 
SPORTDiscus with Full Text via EBSCOhost
SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for more than 440 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the SPORTDiscus index - with no embargo. With full-text coverage dating back to 1985, SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of sports & sports medicine literature.

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NC LIVE logoTOPICsearch via EBSCOhost
A current events database that allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 60,000 articles from 399 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO’s collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
 
NC LIVE logoTwentieth Century African-American Poetry via Chadwyck-Healey
A collection of poetry written by the most important and influential African American poets of the twentieth century. Presently includes over 6,000 poems from over 100 complete editions by 46 poets.
 
NC LIVE logoTwentieth Century American Poetry via Chadwyck-Healey
A database of modern and contemporary American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present. Presently includes 36,000 poems drawn from 460 volumes by 217 poets.
 
NC LIVE logoTwentieth Century English Poetry via Chadwyck-Healey
Containing tens of thousands of works by 288 poets, Twentieth-Century English Poetry provides an overview of poetry written in the 20th century by both established and emerging writers.

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